Adaptation of the Missing Scan Task to a touchscreen format for assessing working memory capacity in children.
Assessing children's working memory capacity (WMC) can be challenging for a variety of reasons, including the rapid increase in WMC across early childhood. Here, we developed and piloted an adapted WMC task, which involved minimal equipment, could be performed rapidly, and did not rely on verbal pro...
| Publicado en: | Infant & Child Development Vol. 30; no. 6; pp. 1 - 12 |
|---|---|
| Autores principales: | , , , , , |
| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
| Publicado: |
Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2021
|
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=154022269&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 154022269 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 15227227 BW5 jtl: Infant & Child Development issn: 15227227 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Nov2021 vid: 30 iid: 6 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 154022269 153169884 154022269 154022269 10.1002/icd.2277 154022269 ppf: 1 ppct: 11 formats: tig: atl: Adaptation of the Missing Scan Task to a touchscreen format for assessing working memory capacity in children. aug: au: Renner, Elizabeth Somai, Rosyl S. Van der Stigchel, Stefan Campbell, Clare Kean, Donna Caldwell, Christine A. affil: University of Stirling, Stirling, UK sug: subj: Mental Processes Evaluation Memory Cognition Task Performance and Analysis User-Computer Interface Methods Instrument Adaptation Child Development Program Development Human Child, Preschool Comparative Studies Descriptive Statistics Child, Preschool: 2-5 years ab: Assessing children's working memory capacity (WMC) can be challenging for a variety of reasons, including the rapid increase in WMC across early childhood. Here, we developed and piloted an adapted WMC task, which involved minimal equipment, could be performed rapidly, and did not rely on verbal production ability (to facilitate the use of the task with younger children). In our adaptation, we portrayed the events of the object‐based Missing Scan Task (creatures hiding in and emerging from a house) in a touchscreen format. In the full experiment, 67 participants aged 23 to 90 months achieved the longest set size (LSS) scores that were distributed across the full range of possible scores. A comparison of these scores with those obtained using object‐based formats indicated general agreement between the versions of the task. Scores were found to increase with child age. We propose this (freely available) touchscreen adaptation as a suitable WMC task for use with children aged 2 to 7 years. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|